The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease

Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying

Stephen G. Post (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2000 | second edition
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-6410-0 (ISBN)

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Society today, writes Stephen Post, is "hypercognitive": it places inordinate emphasis on people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, which over an extended period incrementally rob patients of exactly those functions, raise many dilemmas. How are we to view-and value-persons deprived of what some consider the most important human capacities? In the second edition of The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease, Post updates his highly praised account of the major ethical issues relating to dementia care. With chapters organized to follow the progression from mild to severe and then terminal stages of dementia, Post discusses topics including the experience of dementia, family caregiving, genetic testing for Alzheimer disease, quality of life, and assisted suicide and euthanasia. New to this edition are sections dealing with end-of-life issues (especially artificial nutrition and hydration), the emerging cognitive-enhancing drugs, distributive justice, spirituality, and hospice, as well as a critique of rationalistic definitions of personhood.
The last chapter is a new summary of practical solutions useful to family members and professionals.

Stephen G. Post is a professor at the Center for Biomedical Ethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Defining the Task
Chapter 2. The Family Caregiver: Partnership in Hope
Chapter 3. Fairhill Guidelines on Ethics and the Care of People with Alzheimer Disease
Chapter 4. Genetic Education for a Too-Hopeful Public
Chapter 5. The Humane Goal: Enhancing the Well-Being of Persons with Dementia
Chapter 6. Dying with Dignity: The Case Against Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
Chapter 7. An Argument Against Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Context of Progressive Dementia
Chapter 8. Toward a New Ethics of Dementia Care
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.11.2000
Reihe/Serie	Gerontology
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	255 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8018-6410-0 / 0801864100
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-6410-0 / 9780801864100
Zustand	Neuware